Word: humorically
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Authorized statements from official sources" in the U. S. Government; prepared without bias, printed without sensation, unaccompanied by comment, illustration, elucidation or humor, are what the United States Daily has been furnishing in Washington for three and one-half years. A complete daily tabulation of the functioning of the Federal machinery, it is a unique newspaper valued by business and lawyermen, teachers, editors, government officials the country over...
...Dependable Sense of Humor...
...Eliot's classmate, Professor Adams Sherman Hill, who made the remark (attributed to another man) that the President had a sense of humor, but you 'couldn't count on it.' That he had it is made obvious by what I have already told. When it showed itself in words, his instinct for the close-fitting word was strikingly effective. Of a mean-looking poster inviting new students to the hospitality of a reception, he said, 'It has a very bleak appearance.' Of the magenta handkerchiefs bought for the crew in which he rowed, he said that, though they were...
...action of the play takes place in the 70's and there is opportunity for occasional satirical sallies against the Victorian morals of the day. Much of the humor is supplied by the skillful way in which Susan Blake handles the role of May van der Luyden. Among the male parts, John Marston as Newland Archer and Arnold Korff as Julius Beaufort perform creditably...
Colonial--Earl Carroll's Vanities, with Dorothy Britton and W. C. Fields supplying pulchritude and humor...